An invitation to laughter : a Lebanese anthropologist in the Arab world

An invitation to laughter : a Lebanese anthropologist in the Arab world / Fuad I. Khuri ; edited by Sonia Jalbout Khuri.

For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them?and him?laugh.?When I tell them that?anthropology? is my profession ......

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Main Author: Khūrī, Fuʼād Isḥāq
Other Authors: Khūrī, Sonia Jalbout
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Khūrī, Fuʼād Isḥāq.
Khūrī, Fuʼād Isḥāq
Ethnologists > Lebanon > Biography.
Ethnology > Fieldwork > Arab countries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnologists
Ethnology > Fieldwork
Manners and customs
Arab countries > Social life and customs.
Arab countries
Lebanon
Electronic books.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Prologue: The man himself; Note on Arabic words; Introduction: Why " laughter"?; 1. Exploring origins; 2. Studying anthropology in Oregon; 3. Being Lebanese; 4. Religious syncretism; 5. Lebanese traders inWest Africa; 6. Change as faith; 7. Teaching in Beirut; 8. Establishing an Arab association for the social sciences; 9. The exotic in the suburbs of Beirut; 10. Alumni and ulama in Bahrain; 11. Open secrets; 12. Table manners in Yemen; 13. The official policy toward emigration in Lebanon; 14. The Arab rich; 15. Who wants to be a zaim?; 16. Living in Great Britain
  • List of Research ProjectsList of Publications; Index

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